Hi Ranulph We already have multi-processor setups and multi-core processors in our macs. Intel Core2Duo and Nehalem Xeons have multiple cores and you get two xeons in some Mac Pro towers.
In Snow Leopard the OS is going to help developers make use of these cores with Grand central. You can read more here... http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/#grandcentral Developers need to re-code to make use of grand central though so after the snow leopard release there will be a wait for fully optimised applications to be released. Most applications will take advantage of multicores at the moment, grand central just makes it all more efficient. Hope this makes sense. Cheers B. 2009/8/22 Ranulph Glanville <[email protected]>: > > This is a speculative question. > > I believe one of the major features of 10.6 is that it is based around > multiprocessing. Has anyone heard any whispers about a new generation > of macs that will be multiprocessor based? If so, is there a roll-out > sequence? > > (I am thinking of buying a new imac, and am very interested in > performance: it's for tame based work) > > Best, Ranulph > > > > -- Benjamin Stanley - Technical Director - Trilby Multimedia 47-49 Loveday Street, Birmingham, B4 6NR Telephone: 0121 333 6860 www.trilby.co.uk --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
